We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.

I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

John Green

A culture is like an immune system. It operates through the laws of systems, just like a body. If a body has an infection, the immune system deals with it. Similarly, a group enforces its norms, either actively or passively.

Henry Cloud

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

Don Van Vliet

Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life.

Robert. L. Ehrlich

I know there are nights when I have power, when I could put on something and walk in somewhere, and if there is a man who doesn't look at me, it's because he's gay.

Kathleen Turner

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

Akhmad Kadyrov

The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

Thucydides

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Samuel Butler

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Philip Johnson

There must be more to life than having everything.

Maurice Sendak

Thus is the nature of love: that you must use it! A love unused is not love! If it is something that sits on the shelf that you don't know what to do with, it is not true to the nature of love! Use love!

C. JoyBell C.

Look on beauty,And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight;Which therein works a miracle in nature,Making them lightest that wear most of it:So are those crisped snaky golden locksWhich make such wanton gambols with the wind,Upon supposed fairness, often knownTo be the dowry of a second head,The skull that bred them in the sepulchre.Thus ornament is but the guiled shoreTo a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarfVeiling an Indian beauty; in a word,The seeming truth which cunning times put onTo entrap the wisest.

William Shakespeare